The right of NGOs to access funding is an integral part of the right to freedom of association, and without access to funds and resources, the daily work of NGOs is highly …

Authoritarian regimes around the world are exporting their worst practices and working together to repress their own citizens and undermine human rights standards internationally, writes Daniel Calingaert.  

This “authoritarian internationalism,” which has likely contributed to the …

Democratic backsliding in Eurasia, Egypt’s dependence on foreign subsidies, Kenya’s elections, Russian anti-corruption initiatives and the U.S. military’s efforts to help promote democracy feature in this week’s Democracy Lab roundup:

Anna Nemtsova sends a dispatch from Moscow on the …

A European initiative to fund pro-democracy groups was introduced to Polish activists this week by its new director, Poland’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Jerzy Pomianowski (left), UPI reports:

Pomianowski, appointed by the European Union last month to lead the …

Ales Byalyatski is “one of the few opposition leaders who unites rather than divides” the opposition in Belarus, says a leading democracy assistance practitioner.

“He is respected by everyone across the political spectrum of the opposition and could emerge from …

Eurasia’s authoritarian regimes use “bribes and gifts” to prevent the Council of Europe from criticizing “rampant human rights violations,” says a senior European diplomat.

That’s another reason why Europe needs an autonomous nongovernmental body to advance democracy and human rights, …

Newly emerging popular movements for reform were the driving force behind the Middle East’s major gains in democratic rights last year, according to Freedom in the World 2013, Freedom House’s annual report. But other regions experienced setbacks due to …

The west should not set aside its values to embrace a Ukraine that looks more likely to become Europe’s next Belarus rather than its next Poland.

Viktor Yanukovich, Ukraine’s president, is “flirting” with joining Russia’s proposed customs union “as part …

China isn’t the only autocratic state to crack down on Internet freedom and netizens’ rights. Europe’s last dictatorship plans even tighter controls over citizens’ access to the digital world, says a new report from Index on Censorship:

Belarus…

A front row seat in observing the changes in post-Communist Europe over the past two decades allowed the National Endowment for Democracy’s Nadia Diuk to draw some conclusions on political change, transition, youth, and identity for her recently published …